Daily Archive for August 9th, 2008

“But disk space is cheap”

Often you hear people make this statement if someone dares to complain about the disk space requirements of some software. This is the usual response in such a case. But first of all, even though it is cheap, it requires me – the user of a software – to upgrade my disk space and secondly it may just not be possible to upgrade the disk space because the affected machine is a laptop or so. Which makes me wonder whether the statement can be kept up as such. If it is not feasible to upgrade disk space (and more and more people are moving to mobile devices) then such a statement is cynical at best …

// Oliver